The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-11
THE NEWPORT CASINO.
Things Which Amused Society
During the Week.
THE END OF THE POLO SEASON.
The Two Rival Beauties-Mr. Wilder's
Trip Abroad A General
Glance Around.

Ola writer QenneQ pruQery as JIG luHO
cence of the Yicious-external sancti
mony intented as a cover for interna
laxity.
A damsel of this character encounter
ing DR.. Noah Webster after the publica
ton of his dictionary, complimentec
him on having omitted all the coarse
and Objectionable words.
What, my dear" said DR.. Webster
have 70 u been looking out for them
already?"
OF. course, in every place where
wealthy people, men ard women of the
world, with time and inclination for
pleasure, congregate during midsum-
mer heats, there is always bit of Cos
sip going the rounds. The wisest
matron, be she as discreet as Cordelia,
does rot always escape unscathed, and
as for the blooming young maidens who
dance, drive and lnnocently hirt 10
their hearts content, even they are by
no means permitted to go untouched by
the darts of insInuation and oftentimes
malice.
There is scandel enough every sea-
son at Newport to fill many pages in
the chronicle of the doings of the
fashionable world, but more than half
OF it may be put down as rot" pure,
simple and unmistakeable. But there
is milder sort of gossip which is not
dangerous, although it may be uncom-
Portable. Of this, 100, Newport has its
fill.
The summer community has in one
sense suffered for the want of we'll sea-
soned little morsels of gossip by the
absence from town of the numerous fair
candidates for matrimonial separation.
Two seasons ago Newport abounded in
pretty woman in society who were
either divorced or wanted to be. The
Casino hops used to bring out a fair
sprinkling of charming matrons who
were wrestling with the law or who had
come out victorious in the sets-to with
the blindfolded goddess.
All this has changed. The divorces
have flown to fields more propitlous to
a speedy second marriage, and the re-
cent change in Rhode Island law
whereby divorce proceedings are now
conducted In opIn court has caused the
aspirants for resumption OF single
existence to seek relief somewhere else.
Excepting a corporal guard remaining
Newport knows them no more.
STORY WITH MORAL
But there is plenty. to talk about all
the same, and the Ochre Point palaces,
the avenue mansions, the clubs. and
that headquarters of the news of the
day, the Ocean House piazza, have had
a nice little story to go the rounds,
narrative which has a moral. It is as
follows:
Early in the season bit of personal
intelligence appeared IN the society
column of leading evening
newspaper published in New York.
The purport was that Mrs. -,
the wife of a well known, met
ropolitan financier, would be at New.
port during the summer as the guest OF
the wife of another prominent New
York tinancier. The latter lady is one
of the married bellies of New York and |
Newport, and is as renowned for her |
many charms as her husband is for his |
doings on Wall Street.
For some reason, exactly why does |
not appear, the lady who was made to
appear in print as the intended guest of |
a recognized leader of society seriously
objected to the statement. 1t does
not transpire that there was any
existing enmity between the two,
neither is there hint of social or per-
sonal jealousy. The green-eyed dragon
had not invaded the Bosom of the fair
young dame, but she wanted to arrest
the impression which was sent abroad
that she was to be somebody's guest,
when she was already occupying real,
live Newport cottage, so 10 speak.
Who among my readers of the softer
sex would feel otherwise? Who among
those who reside in a fifty thousand dol
lar cottage in the fashionable portion of
Newport during three months of the
would wish to have the fact buried I'M
der bushel? Not many. it is safe to
wager heavily. Neither did fnqncier's
wife No. L as she will for convenience
sake be most respectfully characterized
SOCIETY DANES ANGER.
To think was to act. Alas, impetuos-
ity during brief periods of annoyance
shapes the conduct of
woman! Steps are frequently taken on
the spur of the moment that are re
pented in proverbial metaphoric dust
and ashes the next day.
The lady sat down and wrote a note,
which soon afterward appeared at the
appeared in print the following day ex-
aCtly as the authoreSs had penued 1t.
To summarize, is stated that Mrs.
(the name was used in the third person)
did not know the lady at whose $50 900
cottage it was alleged she would be
guest, but that she would occupy a cot
tage on her own account. The confd-
ing editor received the note in good
faith and printed it as it read
Down drove the alleged writer to the
Office. Gracefully frisking
out OF her carriage she informed one of
the attaches that she regretted the pub
lication of the note in the form in which
it was Written-that she did not suppose
that anything but the general idea
would be used. 1t is averred by the at
tache referred to that financier's wife
No. was extremely pleasant, that she
evInced no anger and that she court
eously volunteered to send down per
sonal items from her cottage during the
summer.
NO. 2 DIDN'T LIKE IT. {
Financier's wife No. 2 was terribly {
cut up by the publication of the obiec-